The entire moral architecture of this civilization has been rewired to detect the smallest linguistic infraction, while stepping over the bleeding body on the sidewalk
The amount of time it takes to assemble a group of friends from scratch in a city you literally know zero people in appears to be about four days if you are willing to embarrass yourself a lot
you must create because the thing you’d make doesn’t exist anywhere else. nobody has your exact combination of experiences and wounds and obsessions, which means the work only you could make is genuinely irreplaceable. if you don’t make it, it simply never exists. the world just goes without it, never knowing what it missed. that’s the most exciting thing about being you. the thing is waiting and you’re the only door it has.
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!
the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest.
the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager
> drive your friends to the airport
> go to their party even when you're tired
> stop cancelling last minute
> host at your place
> support the wins & losses
it's worth every ounce of effort
Do you ever have random bursts of excitement to talk to people. You initiate communication then next day that energy and excitement is gone and you have pending messages to reply to so you just don’t reply lmao
I’m not okay actually
you can always tell when someone is going to be successful because they're too different from everyone around them without even trying. they carry this quiet intolerance for mediocrity and domestication. you can love or hate them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Dating app & social media gave everyone main character syndrome. Too many think they have “options” but don’t know the difference between quality & quantity. Everyone think they deserve everything without being someone who deserves anything. Whole lotta delusion, no self-awarenes